In this workshop, advanced topics in finance are discussed in detail and finance research topics are presented. Faculty from other universities are invited to speak. Workshop papers will be posted below when available. Occassionally speakers will choose not to circulate their papers. In such cases, the link will be unavailable.

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Spring 2025

Date Time Room Topic Speaker Institution
Tues, Mar 25 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Financial Shocks, Productivity, and Prices
Simone Lenzu NYU
Tues, Apr 1 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Deposit Franchise Runs Philipp Schnabl NYU
Tues, Apr 8 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth
Nicolae Gârleanu WashU
Tues, Apr 15 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Renewable Asset Price Volatility and Its Implications for Decarbonization
Harrison Hong Columbia-Econ
Tues, Apr 22 1:20–2:50 p.m.
 C03 Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market              Bryan Seegmiller Kellogg
Tues, Apr 29 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Racial Differences in the Total Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing
William Diamond Wharton
Tues, May 6 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Can U.S. Treasury Markets Add and Subtract? Howard Kung LBS
Tues, May 13 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Forecasting Crashes with a Smile Ian Martin LSE
Tues, May 20 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Expectations Formation with Fat-Tailed Processes: Evidence and Theory David Thesmar MIT

Winter 2025

Date Time Room Topic Speaker Institution
Tues, Jan 7 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 NO WORKSHOP    
Tues, Jan 14 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Regulating Credit: The Impact of Price Regulations and Lender Technologies on Financial Inclusion Susan Cherry Stanford GSB
Tues, Jan 21 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Banking Relationships and Loan Pricing Disconnect Francesco Beraldi Yale
Tues, Jan 28 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 The Development of Domestic Bond Markets Amanda Dos Santos Columbia
Tues, Feb 4 1:20–2:50 p.m.
 C03 NO WORKSHOP    
Tues, Feb 11 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Financial Conditions Targeting
Alp Simsek Yale
Tues, Feb 18 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 A Theory of Economic Coercion and Fragmentation Matteo Maggiori Stanford GSB
Tues, Feb 25 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Probability Pricing
Eduardo Davila Yale
Tues, Mar 4 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Business Concentration around the World: 1900–2020
Yueran Ma Chicago Booth

Autumn 2024

Date Time Room Topic Speaker Institution
Tues, Oct 1 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Regulator Beliefs
Manav Chaudhary Joint PhD student
Tues, Oct 8 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Financial Institutions, Asset Prices, and Household Behavior Federico Mainardi Joint PhD student
Tues, Oct 15 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 The Demand for Long-Term Mortgage Contracts and the Role of Collateral
Lu Liu Wharton
Tues, Oct 22 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 Finance without Exotic Risk Nicola Gennaioli Bocconi
Tues, Oct 29 1:20–2:50 p.m.
 C03 The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes
Michela Giorcelli UCLA
Tues, Nov 5 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets
Ishita Sen HBS
Tues, Nov 12 1:20–2:50 p.m.
 C03 Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market
Chuqing Jin Toulouse School of Economics
Tues, Nov 19 1:20–2:50 p.m.
 C03 Teaching Economics to the Machines Hui Chen MIT
Tues, Nov 26 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03 NO WORKSHOP    
Tues, Dec 3 1:20–2:50 p.m.  C03
NO WORKSHOP    
Tues, Dec 10 1:20–2:50 p.m.
 C03 NO WORKSHOP